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Acts 17:12

The Pulpit Commentary on Acts 17:12

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Many … therefore for therefore many, A.V.; the Greek women of honorable estate for honorable women which were Greeks, A.V. Honorable; εὐσχημόνων, as , where it is coupled with τοὺς πρώτους τῆς πόλεως.

Meyer thinks that it is meant that the men were Greeks too; but this is uncertain. The only Beraean convert whose name we know is Sopater (), or Sosipater, who is probably the same ().

If so, he was apparently a Jew, whose Hebrew name may have been Abishua.

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